was one of the most influential belarusian economists in the 1920`s , who made a great contribution to the development of the development of economic science ( esp. economic geography) in Belarus. Arkady Antonovich was professor of Belarus State University and deputy chair of the Belarusian University of Culture and Science, author of many books.
Education
Arkady Antonovich entered the Kiev Polytechnic Institute in 1909, but soon he moved to the New Alexander Agricultural Institute in Pulawy (Poland). For participating in student demonstrations , he was expelled from the institute and was sent out.
Some time after those events he managed to continue his education in St. Petersburg in 1913.
Career
Since 1916, Arkady Antonovich worked in Minsk Province Zemstvo, he conducted the census of population and economy of the Minsk province.
Arkady Antonovich took an active part in political life of Belarus and became a member of the Government of BPR. Since 1923 he became a member of academic staff of faculty of Pedagogics of BSU, responsible for the creation of the Cabinet of local history. Since December 1923 he was a teacher of geography of Russia and Belarus. In 1925, at a meeting of the Board of the Faculty of Education Arkady Antonovich defended his master's thesis: "Types of geographical territories of Belarus" and was elected an assistant professor in the Department of Geography of the Belarusian State University. Since 1925, he was Member of "Inbelkult" . Over the years 1925-1928. was the chief editor of all publications in Inbelkult, led by its publisher, supervised agricultural section and the zoning commission.
In 1930 was arrested and sent out for five years to Ishym (Perm district). In 1935 was set free and tried to come back in Minsk. But did not manage to come back and was taken into custody. In 1938 was executed by shooting by a verdict of "Troika".